"Farting Law" Bill would make passing gas publicly a crime in Malawi, Africa

NBC(NBC)_A new government proposal has people in the African Country of Malawi raising a stink.The government there wants to make farting in public a misdemeanor. Some residents say they questioned how such a law could possibly be enforced and that sometimes it's hard to control the bodily function.They say there are more important issues for the government to tackle and that the new law is a waste of public money.Besides farting, the bill also targets people who pretend to be fortune tellers.

Stupidest.Bill.Ever.Couldn't they do something more important for Malawi?(It might just be a cover-up for the "anti-fortune teller" part though and serve as a hiding shell for the complaints of fighting those who choose that profession they would recieve if they made it a law on its own.)

they should all go on strike or something, that'd really cause a stink

Lol who would make a law not to fart.

That isn't what the law is about. The law makes 'fouling the air' an offence and relates to air pollution from businesses and domestic incinerators etc. The malawi equivalent of a parliament were debating whether or not farting would fall under that definition or not.

Maybe Madonna could adopt another fart

The air would kind of smell bad.

Those law makers should watch this episode of South Park...http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s03e02-spontaneous-combustionAs that's exactly how silly that law is.

How about farting fortune tellers?

They would make it a law considering how bad the air in africa is already.

Cahos Rahne Veloza · #7Those law makers should watch this episode of South Park...
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s03e02-spontaneous-combustion
As that's exactly how silly that law is.

The law is not silly at all. Since farting would not be classed as fouling the air. I hope not anyway

Next thing you know they'll make sneezing, coughing, belching, burping & queefing a crime too.

It's already a crime in Soviet Russia.

Wow. :o

If farting does come under it...well in a way it's good but in another I can see people blowing their bowls wide open.

farting a crime? they do know that you cant control when fart come and goes, right?

I like the last part of that.
"Besides farting, the bill also targets people who pretend to be fortune tellers."
What do phony fortune tellers have to do with 'fouling up the air'?.....

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Spewing hot air.

Replying to #17

Then being smug &/or being a braggart should be outlawed as well :D

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remind me of Smug Alert XD

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Indeed this whole matter is so Reminiscent of South Park ;DHey maybe they should Rename Malawi as South Park seeing as their lawmakers are just like South Park's mayor when they decided to make this Law.